OpenAI Says It Solved a $1M Math Problem. A Rival Mathematician Says He Did It First
NYU's Tristan Buckmaster accuses OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck of racing to claim credit for a Navier-Stokes proof after learning about his unpublished work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge.
New York University mathematics professor Tristan Buckmaster and Anthropic mathematician Levent Alpöge have made significant findings on one of the major unsolved problems in theoretical mathematics, specifically related to the Navier-Stokes equations. According to TechCrunch, they collaborated using AI models from Codex and Claude.
Buckmaster and Alpöge claim they learned that information about their progress had been shared with OpenAI. OpenAI reportedly achieved a full proof of the central problem, but Buckmaster expressed concerns about the timing and the amount of human input involved in OpenAI's work.
Decrypt reports that Buckmaster accuses OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck of rushing to claim credit for the Navier-Stokes proof after learning about his unpublished work with Alpöge. The situation has sparked controversy surrounding OpenAI's attempts to solve the problem.
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